News

David is in the news today, commenting on yesterday’s hack of the U.S. military’s Twitter account and what it means, in the Ottawa Citizen

David commented today that data on the Ontario government website is safe despite hack, in the Toronto Star and the Hamilton Spectator.

Nick’s work with children at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation ­Hospital in Toronto is featured in the Queen’s 2013-2014 Annual Report.

There is a nice article about Randy in today’s Gazette.

David is in the news December 1, commenting on why shoppers might be more wary during Cyber Monday, on cbc.ca.

Dr. Randy Ellis has been selected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Only 1 in 1,000 members are elected annually; this year there were 15 Canadians. Randy is the fifth Queen’s Professor to hold the title.

Drs. Mohammad Zulkernine and Fehmi Jaafar have successfully applied to Mitacs for an internship with OMP Music. They will be pursuing their research on guitar music scores in collaboration with Dr. Yuhong Yan and four other interns from Concordia University.

David was interviewed by the media following the attacks on the Toronto and Ottawa police websites.

Queen’s School of Computing Perk lab undergraduates Maggie Hess and Vinyas Harish presented their research at the Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare (CUCOH). Being accepted for oral podium presentation was quite a distinction for our young undergraduates.

Also noteworthy: Maggie received the First Place Prize for oral presentations.

Three teams of the Queen’s Programming Group participated in the IEEE Xtreme programming competition.  Internationally there were 1,720 teams entered into the final ranking, 69 of which were from Canada.

The Queen’s School of Computing Team made up of QSC graduate students Kiran Sundarav and Aparna Bhat  placed first at Queen’s, 14th in Canada, and 194th internationally.